£9500 No offers!! Brave or daft?

[Thankyou4calling]

Browsing the ads as you do. I often come across private sellers who quote a price with NO OFFERS. Would this stop you making an offer, have you ever put an ad up like this. I thought it was normal to make an offer and by saying NO OFFERS you would limit your market?

[McSam]

I've always thought that this is only done by people who've been trying to sell the thing for ages and are very bored of getting stupid offers all the time.

Otherwise, I'd have put it up for £10500 ONO, or just £9995 without comment.. It does seem like you're limiting yourself.

[parapaul]

If I was buying, I would look at the listing but be more prepared to dismiss it than with others.

ONO or OVNO would work better IMO.

[DrTre]

If something's priced at the low end then I think it's fair enough.

Some people just ask for a lower figure regardless. (edit: buyers I mean)

Edited by DrTre on Sunday 6th March 14:07

[Ozzie Osmond]

Better IMO to say "priced for early sale at £9,500, first to see will buy." Unless the car's an overpriced heap of junk!

At the end of the day there's nothing wrong with setting a take-it-or-leave it price. You can still accept £9,450 on the day or tell the guy who offers £9,000 to get lost.

[1]

There was a thread on here recently where a seller was telling us how he was so fed-up of getting silly offers he reduced the price to £1200 No Offers - from £1795 ono!!!

Makes no sense to me. It always makes me think the seller will be awkward to deal with and want to interview me to see if I am worthy enough to buy thier car (I once had a bloke do this when I went to view his mint MK1 Golf GTi).

[RemainAllHoof]

I quite like those ads which state "£500 firm" on certain sites. Then two days later £450.

[nottyash]

I have done it before when wanting a sale. I price the car cheap and put no offers. People still try to knock you down, its human nature but the cars have always sold themselves, and I dont take a penny less.

[va1o]

If its a cheap price then fair enough. E.g. new shape Scirocco for £9500 no offers, I'd go with cash right now.

[Thankyou4calling]

va1o said:

If its a cheap price then fair enough. E.g. new shape Scirocco for £9500 no offers, I'd go with cash right now.

Race ya for that one!

[Sneaky Schnell]

This ad, obviously written by a complete knob, has been generating some laughs on an Irish motoring forum.

[TheEnd]

Sneaky Schnell said:

This ad, obviously written by a complete knob, has been generating some laughs on an Irish motoring forum.

They must have a lower humour threshold than me!

[Thankyou4calling]

TheEnd said:

They must have a lower humour threshold than me!

If I were tempted but could only raise £15750 CASH, would I be abused or welcomed?

[sharpfocus]

I wouldn't touch a car or house advertised like that.

It's a waste of my time and money to turn up and find that it's overpriced and not negotiable.

[Jasandjules]

I am willing to bet that those with adverts which state "no offers" will still get calls asking for a best price etc..

[TheEnd]

Thankyou4calling said:

TheEnd said:

They must have a lower humour threshold than me!

If I were tempted but could only raise £15750 CASH, would I be abused or welcomed?

Abused I guess, he wants 16,999, and would not let it go for less than 16,000, so I guess he's telling all the "I'll give you 15,000 now" to take a hike.

[Gwagon111]

If I've had enough of people offering half what I've advertised a car for, without even having seen it, and thinking it's a serious offer. I assume that everyone who looks is a thick / piss taking . Only then will I resort to the no offers line. I look at what similar cars are going for, and various book values, before I put a car up for sale. I don't appreciate some lazy, half arsed cocktard, phoning me to waste my time, offering a ish amount, for a car they haven't even seen.

[GarryA]

I was selling a Cooper S recently, £6695 very good car and well priced, many calls from people looking to pay 3k, buy it for their sister / dying mother who has not got a lot of money, swap it for a POS (insert any fcked car from the 90's) potential buyers turning up with 4 mates all expecting a joy ride. . . . . .

Banged it up £6k no offers and sold straight away no hassle. That was worth at least £500 to me, selling cars is a nightmare.

[Monkeylegend]

Thankyou4calling said:

f I were tempted but could only raise £15750 CASH, would I be abused or welcomed?

He would probably welcome you with open arms at the current exchange rate.

[Piersman2]

GarryA said:

I was selling a Cooper S recently, £6695 very good car and well priced, many calls from people looking to pay 3k, buy it for their sister / dying mother who has not got a lot of money, swap it for a POS (insert any fcked car from the 90's) potential buyers turning up with 4 mates all expecting a joy ride. . . . . .

Banged it up £6k no offers and sold straight away no hassle. That was worth at least £500 to me, selling cars is a nightmare.

This is the secret. When I've sold my last 2 XJRs I've priced tham both to be the cheapest available and I've just stuck to my guns on the price.

Price it right in the first place and it'll sell.

Many people seme to think their car is something 'special', but they never are.

For exmaple, my 2003 XJR was sold for £6800. At the time the mearest priced one on any website was £9K, but there's no point advertising it at a price that it's not gonna sell